If you email the White House press office, this is the autoresponse you get:

Berlin just tested its air raid sirens for the first time in 30 years. This is what it sounded like.

Have Germans become the slackers of Europe -- and of the entire developed world? The data certainly says so.

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The economic trend lines for D.C. don't look great, per a report just released by the D.C. CFO's office (with data from March):

The tallest building in Virginia will be... a vulcanization tower at a submarine power cable manufacturing facility in Chesapeake.
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New data from realtor.com suggests Trump administration actions are having an impact on the D.C.-area housing market.

Listings are up 56.2% from a year ago, while the median list price is down 1.6%.

This is what Trump's return-to-office mandate looks like for some federal workers:
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This morning, HUD instituted a policy of searching bags and putting everyone through a metal detector. By 8 a.m., employees had already been waiting in line for an hour, a HUD source says.

HUD sources say this is playing on all TV screens in D.C. headquarters this morning

Obviously high mortgage rates are a factor too. But look how January 2025 (red dot) compares to previous years.

Lost your federal government job? Move to Richmond! says the Greater Richmond Partnership, the region's economic development organization.

Here's its pitch:

For those keeping score of the Trump officials buying luxury property in the D.C. region, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brought this Georgetown mansion for $12.5 million www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Andrew Friedson was the Montgomery County Council president who led the public meetings around Attainable Housing Strategies, the proposal to allow denser housing types.

Today, he and another council member introduced this replacement bill focusing on workforce housing:

The sale of Bret Baier's D.C. house closed today for $25 million, a source tells me. That's the highest residential sale in D.C. history.

Trump commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick is reportedly the buyer.

Here's what the place on Foxhall Rd NW looks like:

This is what Capital One Arena is expected to look like by 2027.

Minimal construction starts now, with the bigger exterior renovations beginning in 2026.

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You think you hate changing the clocks, but do you really want the sun to rise at 4:30 a.m. in the summer (with no DST) or at 8:30 a.m. in the winter (with permanent DST)?

Our weird system is the least bad system.

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The D.C. area will see home prices rise more than anywhere else in the mid-Atlantic in 2025, with the median sale increasing to $638,000, as return to office leads more people to relocate closer to urban centers, BrightMLS forecasts.

Rents in D.C. have risen more over the past year than in any other major metro area except Virginia Beach, according to a new Redfin report out today.

Places in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest continue to have the biggest increases. Last month, D.C. was No. 1.

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